Data Engineer

**Job Category**:Products and Technology

**Job Details**:**About the Role**
As our team expands and looks to reach the next level of sophistication, we are looking for an experienced data engineer to join us on this journey. This person will focus on the backend of our analytics environment but will not necessarily be limited to just this area. They will work closely with our analysts and product teams to understand needs and build the necessary data pipelines to support analytics that help measure progress against our ambitious product goals. They will also work closely with our platform engineering team to architect a scalable, future proof data platform with a high level of automation.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide critical input on logical and physical architecture around data lake, warehouse, transformations, orchestration process and security
- Provide critical input on schemas and data models for ingestion and customer facing assets such as star schemas
- Develop automation techniques for data provisioning, access control, validation rules, transformation, error handling and pipeline monitoring
- Build scalable ETL processes to deal with a variety of data sources, cadences and granularities dealing with parallel multi-Terabyte workloads
- R&D and prototyping of new design patterns and technologies

**About the Team**
You will be joining a newly formed Product Analytics team within the MuleSoft Data Organization, reporting to the Director of Product Analytics. Mulesoft is the fastest growing acquisition in SalesForce history, with no signs of slowing down The Product Metrics team are a critical function. We partner with product leads to help them understand how our products are used and what behavioral patterns emerge from customer activity. Our services also support other Data teams such as Customer Analytics and Sales Analytics, where we help provide data and content to answer important business questions to support the field, such as Marketing and Customer Success teams.

**Required Qualifications**:

- You have at least 7 years of hands-on work experience designing, building and maintaining data pipelines for large data volumes, with varying structure and frequency
- You are deeply experienced with cloud-based development processes and automation.
- You have strong judgement about modern data architectures and are able to propose and justify alternatives that consider overlapping paradigms such as data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, mart, staging and intermediate layers, central vs hub and spoke models, ETL vs ELT etc. You proposals aim to never compromise on business needs while working within technical limitations of tools and internal policies.
- You have experience working with database platforms and are comfortable doing performance analysis and tuning of indexes, views, partitioning, etc. Expert SQL knowledge is expected.
- You are familiar with the frontend layer of BI tools and understand the key elements of a great analytical user journey.
- You have strong instincts and judgment about the technical backend implications of data analysis needs. You pride yourself on designing scalable and flexible data pipelines.
- You are as comfortable working with git, the command line, and dev environments as you are collaborating with business stakeholders at all levels of seniority to understand their data needs.
- You can write scripts and small programs for orchestration.
- Your written communication is clear and you have the ability to distill complex ideas into accurate and easily understandable takeaways will be keys to your success.

**Beneficial Experience**:

- Working knowledge of the following technologies:

- AWS data services
- Terraform
- Snowflake
- Matillion
- Tableau
- Python
- Working with modern big data technologies such as Spark, Cassandra, Drill, and related platforms. Given a business case and technical metadata, you are able to evaluate the suitability of such technologies and talk through pros and cons

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